Where did you think babies came from before you were given "The Talk"?

[Rule Britannia]

Where did you think babies came from before you had "The Talk"?

I always thought that once a couple got married it just happened, I knew it was the woman that got pregnant but thought it happened as if it were magic or something, if the couple didn't want a baby it just wouldn't happen. I never really put much thought into the dumbness of it. I was told when I was 10 or 11 I think.

So escapists, Where did babies come from before you were given "The Talk" and how old were you when given "The Talk"?

 

[emeraldrafael]

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I always thought that once a couple got married it just happened, the woman got pregnant as if it were magic or something, if they didn't want a baby it wouldn't happen. ...

Not to question your logic at that age or say that you should have known better, but did no one ever have a kid that was unplanned when you grew up?

OT: I've always known where they came from since I was probably... I wanna say 6. Not so much cause I got the talk, but I was visiting family who live on a farm that raised pigs for a few weeks and during the earlier part of the week I saw too pigs doing it, then in the later weeks I saw a pig give birth (obviously not that same pig as before) and when I asked where the piglet came from my cousin said from when the pigs humped like we had seen earlier.

 

[Rule Britannia]

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I always thought that once a couple got married it just happened, the woman got pregnant as if it were magic or something, if they didn't want a baby it wouldn't happen. ...

Not to question your logic at that age or say that you should have known better, but did no one ever have a kid that was unplanned when you grew up?

Hence the "if they didn't want a baby it wouldn't happen"

 

[Lieju]

There was no 'The talk' for me.

I can't really remember how or when I learned where babies came from. It kinda happened in the same way I got my knowledge of any biological subject. It was never any secret.

I suppose at first I thought humans just always were there, and when I started to understand the world around me more and that humans(and other animals) were born and changed and grew and died and different animals procreated differently and learned more and more about the details.

I'm still learning and studying developmental biology, so I still don't fully know everything there is to know about human procreation.

EDIT:
I do remember as a kid asking my mom how ducks had sex since they had no penis(or so I thought). She didn't know.
That mystified me, I recall that. How ducks had sex, that is, not that my mom didn't know.

Also the whole thing with eggs, how they could be made inside a bird and why there were no birds inside the eggs we ate.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Well, I knew they came from pregnant women. That's about it.

I never got "the talk" from my parents though. The internet gave it to me instead. :/

I can only hope it was tasteful.

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I always thought that once a couple got married it just happened, the woman got pregnant as if it were magic or something, if they didn't want a baby it wouldn't happen. ...

Not to question your logic at that age or say that you should have known better, but did no one ever have a kid that was unplanned when you grew up?

Hence the "if they didn't want a baby it wouldn't happen"

hunh. well I did grow up next to a um..."bad" area. maybe thats why it strikes me as odd

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

As far I can remember, I always knew that they came from pregnant woman. How they got into the woman is a different matter. I think I believed women could choose to form a baby when they felt like it.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

I knew where babies come from for as long as I can remember. I had a kid's book about human biology, which covered that topic... Using robots... Having said that, I only understood it as a fairly abstract concept. I basically knew where babies come from without properly understanding what sex was, if you see what I mean.

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I always thought that once a couple got married it just happened, the woman got pregnant as if it were magic or something, if they didn't want a baby it wouldn't happen. ...

Not to question your logic at that age or say that you should have known better, but did no one ever have a kid that was unplanned when you grew up?

Well presumably they didn't feel it was necessary to tell a child whether their baby was an accident!

 

[Blobpie]

When i was a kid i really didn't give it too much thought.

 

[retyopy]

I got "The Talk" when I was around 5, so I can't really remember.

Yeah, my parents are fucked up.

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

As far I can remember, I always knew that they came from pregnant woman. How they got into the woman is a different matter. I think I believed women could choose to form a baby when they felt like it.

I thought they had to eat some kind of seed that would then grow into a baby inside of their stomach. Since I already "knew" that if you ate a watermelon seed it would make a watermelon plant grow inside you...So there must be human seeds as well!

Now that I think about it, I wasn't that far off from the truth.

 

[IamQ]

I knew it from a very early age, so I've got no idea if I had any thoughts about it before I knew. My parents were very honest with me about stuff like this.

 

[ConstantErasing]

I just thought that a couple could simply make it happen by magic when they decided to. It was around 4th grade I think that my school showed a video in art class that told me otherwise.

 

[Chalacachaca]

I didn't got any talk, all I know it's that when I was like five my mom was pregnant, carried the baby till full term and had a stillborn. Meanwhile during her pregnancy I looked at her pregnancy guide and saw graphic pictures of women giving birth.

And that would've been fine and dandy if it wasn't for this scene from The Applegates (around 8:10 mark)


It wasn't until later in elementary school that I concluded that homo sapiens, in fact, are not delivered in eggs.

 

[Switchblade1080]

I never asked...well, honestly I wasn't that curious when I was a kid so I wouldn't know...

"The Talk" never came to me either, it came from a guess by watching that episode of Family Guy where Stewie was bo-ITS A TRAP!!!.

 

[isometry]

I was curious about a lot of things, but not babies, I've never cared about those. Pregnancy and sex were explained around age 7 or 8 in sex education at my public school.

 

[Section Crow]

i thought we just spawned, like one day *pop* and thus i existed

 

[mrc390]

They got married and then the womwn gave birth to a baby. I was pretty much bang on except for the whole sex part

 

[s0meNo0b]

i thought we just spawned, like one day *pop* and thus i existed

This.

I never really told anyone about it for a while though and I ended up finding out myself eventually.